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My 2022/2023 Oscar Picks Versus Your Academy Award Oscar Picks
It’s not a fair fight, yet here are my two cents
Roaring Rivers
Torrents, currents, and ripples by Christyl Rivers
Who will get slapped? Who will talk too long?
As for the Academy Awards themselves, I have not watched them in years. Do you? If so, why? Or, why not?
It’s fun to see what people are wearing, and who people are slapping.
Bread and snarkiness.
Perhaps this is a perverse pleasure of gallows-style humor in knowing we all are so vulnerable to comedy, tragedy, and sparkling humanity gowns and tuxedos while the world burns.
Avatar is different that regular Ta’r
I’m not fair at all.
I haven’t seen the second Avatar movie. That said, I will judge it as better than Ta’r, which I have seen and couldn’t bring myself to love. Maybe I was too tired, that was a farm day.
Cate Blanchett’s performance was exquisite, and I love classical music, yet somehow this unnerving surveillance of a groomer’s portrayal left me wishing for more of a 1980s Elton John-style presentation of melodrama and…